Current and upcoming point-of-care diagnostics for schistosomiasis

Trends Parasitol. 2023 Nov 23:S1471-4922(23)00280-5. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.10.005. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPoint-of-care (POC) diagnostics are simple and effective portable tools that can be used for fast mapping of helminthic diseases and monitoring control programs. Most POC tests (POCTs) available for schistosomiasis diagnosis are lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs). The emergence of simple and rapid DNA isolation methods, along with isothermal nucleic acid amplification strategies - for example, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) - and recent clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based diagnostic methods facilitate the development of molecular-based POC diagnostics for schistosomiasis. Furthermore, smartphone-based techniques increase real-time connectivity and readout accuracy of POCTs. This review discusses the recent advances in immunological-, molecular-based POCTs and mobile phone microscopes for the diagnosis/screening of schistosomiasis.PMID:38000956 | DOI:10.1016/j.pt.2023.10.005

Source: Trends in Parasitology - November 24, 2023 Category: Parasitology Authors: Jonas Rivera Yi Mu Catherine A Gordon Malcolm K Jones Guofeng Cheng Pengfei Cai Source Type: research